As I've learned by playing downloadable games for the past ten years, Indie games can come in all different shapes and sizes. Not only that, the places they explore, and the things you can do, can all be different as well! This game, while it looks like it would be right at home on the N64 in the late 1990's (or the Nintendo DS in the late Oughts), the game is more of a hard school love letter to the 1980's, and plays like one to! Even for a seasoned expert, it is HIGHLY recommended that you play in Adventure Mode, where you have limitless lives and limitless continues. Because the first time you play it, you probably WILL end up dying...a LOT, especially if you're trying to find all the hidden cassettes, coins, and rubber ducks hidden throughout the game! Playing either as a teenage boy (or a girl), you wind up getting zapped into the game similar to the movie "Tron", and you find yourself playing as a short, squat wizard, colored similar to whatever clothes you were wearing. At first, your Wizard can't jump very well, so you have to find a hat that will allow you the ability to jump higher, which well help you progress further in the game! Even so, the game won't be easy, as there are LITERAL Demonic Spiders (and bees) hidden in some of the darker levels, and the only way to ward them off is by collecting a magic wand with a refillable mana meter, which you can use to chase the spiders away! But more likely, you'll probably die due to the many misjudged moments that you jump to avoid lasers, fire, spinning spike robots, falling on spikes, electric floors, or into poison water! But this game contains unlikely references to "Pac-Man", "Ice Hockey", "Lord Of The Rings", and a mine cart ride straight from an "Indiana Jones" film! The object of the game is to find four hidden video game artifacts hidden throughout the game, before you are able to go home. While the game will challenge you, the great Indie Graphics, good music, great sound, good controls, and challenging puzzles, will keep you coming back for more until you can solve everything within the game! I highly recommend it to seasoned experts looking for a good, Isometric 3D challenge! Enough said, true believers!
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